The ambient shapes, minutely detailed animation and cool gray wash make this a favorite for overall design. Sometimes we felt the intro was a bit long and some of the navigation a bit too tech, but for fans of the ambient and electronic DJ genre, this site sets the mark for beauty. Includes a well designed Flash keyboard mixer for you to play.... More

Kashmir is very interface driven, overloading you with buttons and auxiliary information, but this site is for the fans, and as such, it gives them lots of features to play with. Overall, the light blue washes and blurred touches are quite beautiful. Combines Flash and DHTML design work.... More

Candy striped and minimal, EB makes for pure exploring fun while you get introduced to the new album, Chocolate Garden. Download all the songs as MP3, for free, or peruse the photo album, check the bulletin board and play small interactive games.... More

Fans of Flash will find this site clean, accessible and quietly fun. The interface work is great - emulating equalizer bars - and the color scheme and open spaces combined with great photos make this site a sharp accomplishment.... More

The opening Flash intro with the cool sixties-style color designs are really what makes this site rock. Inside, the style changes a little bit, but definitely not for the worse, and the overall design and features makes this a fantastic site for the fans.... More

Explore this dreamy future landscape park for the new album from Air. Starting from the short introduction - one of the few we actually enjoyed watching - begin a virtual trip through beautifully rendered vistas devoid of words, complete with selected atmospheric vibes from the groovy electronic group. The pages are graphically rich, thus the page loads are quite slow.... More

This site for the 10 year old record label (started by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame) began by compiling and promoting native Brazilian "pop" music. Luaka is a paradise of textured wonders, effusing and busting with the vibrant colors and feelings of the South American and Spanish musical peoples. The range of Spanish flavors live on through more musical additions, and through the wonderfully textured and uninhibited design presented in the site. The iconography is excellent, and the variety of designs, for instance, in the "All Our Disks" area, is stupendous. The site deftly illustrates the richness of the label and the music.... More

An impressive interactive design concept supported by excellent functionality: this is one of the first 4.0 generation sites that really delivers - concept, visuals, sound, interactivity + variety. The website design plays on the phrase "you can't see the forest for the trees." Individual artists were each commissioned to do an interactive interpretation of a particular track for the Dreamworks album without knowing what the other participants were doing, or how it would all come together. The result is a forest of trees testifying to the inspiration of the visionary soundscapes in Forest for the Trees.... More

From the talent of Entropy8 designer Auriera Harvey comes an amazingly textured record label site. The red duotones, rough typography, and 'conscious' imagery make this small promotional site burst at the seams. A beautiful calling-card site promoting Conscience Records. The excellence in design lies in the realization of complex layed textures that captures attention on screen.... More